London, United Kingdom -- The production operations of Zarqa al-Yamamah Opera, the first grand opera to be produced by Saudi Arabia and the world’s largest grand opera in Arabic, were launched at Goldsmiths Hall in London by the Saudi Theater and Performing Arts Commission on Friday. The Zarqa al-Yamamah Opera is...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - SRMG Ventures, the venture capital arm of the largest integrated media group in the MENA region, has invested $5 million in Anghami, the prominent music and entertainment streaming platform in MENA region.  The music and audio sector in the MENA is projected to reach $700 million...

ABU DHABI, UAE -  UAE Ministry of Economy organized two workshops, in Arabic and English, to promote the awareness of suspicious transactions among traders and business owners in the gold and precious stones sector. The workshops, through the Department of Anti-Money Laundering, also made the traders and business owners aware...

Morocco has the largest population of Berbers in North Africa, and Thursday's decision responds to a long-standing demand by activists to preserve the language, which is currently taught to just 330,000 pupils. The move "will necessitate more specialist and bilingual teachers", the education minister said.

Dubai, UAE-- The UAE government has launched an AI-powered chatbot that allows users to access information about government services in one place in Arabic and English. The “U-Ask” platform, a unified AI-powered chatbot, is now available on the official portal of the UAE government. Using generative AI technology, the platform...

"Projections indicate that AI solutions are set to contribute an estimated $13 trillion to the global GDP by 2030, optimizing the industries of tomorrow and significantly improving the lives of billions of people," adds Dr. Al Jaber, who is also President-Designate of COP28 and the Chairman of MBZUAI.

“Increasing student competence in Arabic is a top priority; it's a crucial component of the UAE's national identity,” adds Sheikh Abdullah, who is also the Chairman of the Education and Human Resources Council, while highlighting the importance of keeping the standard of education system high.

The Foreign Experts Court of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has managed to maintain high adjudication rates in the cases brought before it over three years since it started operating in 2019.

Language is a sensitive topic in the North African country, where French is still widely spoken six decades after independence that followed 132 years of colonial rule and a gruelling eight-year war." The French language is war booty, but English is the international language," President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told journalists in...

Nicknamed “the Druze prodigy” after winning a TV competition aged 12, Sharif — now in his 40s — rose to fame with his Mizrahi (Eastern) pop songs in the 1990s in Israel.

After all, what is considered traditional wisdom — and therefore infallible — has at times been known to run counter to present-day business intelligence and management tactics. So, business-owners would do well to know which saying to adopt, and which one to steer clear of.

The renaming is seen as the assertion of a cultural element that expresses the Saudi identity and reflects the people's relation with coffee and the tradition of its preparation and serving.

The longest Persian novel or the second-longest novel in the world “Kelidar” has been translated into Arabic and published in Cairo, Egypt, Iranian media reports said. Mohammad-Ali Azarshab, a renowned professor of Arabic literature and language, said that since contemporary Persian novels have been welcomed in Arab countries, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s...

People are hungry to consume content that they can understand and more importantly relate to, says Eyad Basheer, chief operating officer of Tamatem.

The aim of relaunching the Hebrew coverage is to convey the Palestinian point of view to Israeli society in an objective manner, said Wafa editor-in-chief Khuloud Assaf.

This year’s theme is “Arabic Language, a bridge between civilizations."

The High Council for Education has said that government schools "are not giving the majority of pupils basic skills or a fundamental education".

This Jordanian firm is being praised for Arabic mobile games.

The 3000-year-old Hima Najran rock arts site has more than 550 paintings 

beIN Media Group plans to rebrand channel to broadcast 3,000 hours of Olympic coverage in the Mena region

The company caved in to demands for gender equity space on social media site Arabic verbs and adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms Caving in to demands of female users for more gender-equity space on social media, Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users...

An employer will have to pay for any time exceeding the 8-hour shift Violators to pay a fine of $1361 and could have their file suspended or status downgraded The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) will begin implementing the ban on works performed under the sun and in...